Moby Dick

[Old Thunder]

"Is not the maintruck higher than the kelson is low?

 

[Old Thunder]

"Delight is to him -- a far, far upward, and inward delight -- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.

 

[Old Thunder]

"Delight is to him whose strong arms yet support him, when the ship of the base treacherous world has gone down beneath him.

 

[Old Thunder]

"Delight is to him, who gives no quarter in the truth, and kills, burns, and destroys all sin though he pluck it out from under the robes of Senators and Judges.

 

[Old Thunder]

"Delight, -- top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.

 

[Old Thunder]

"Delight is to him, whom all the waves of the billows of the seas of the boisterous mob can never shake from this sure Keel of the Ages.

 

[Old Thunder]

"And eternal delight and deliciousness will be his, who coming to lay him down, can say with his final breath -- O Father! -- chiefly known to me by Thy rod -- mortal or immortal, here I die.

 

[Old Thunder]

"I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's, or mine own.

 

[Old Thunder]

"Yet this is nothing; I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should out the lifetime of his God?"

 

[Old Thunder]

He said no more, but slowly waving a benediction covered face with his hands, and so remained kneeling, till all the people had departed, and he was left alone in the place.